Festive icks

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'With all the trimmings'

I couldn't even type that without my teeth itching.

I'm sure they'll be plenty more...

NYE hate it all right January the first I just hate NYE. Don’t celebrate it.

I love NYE as a boring parent. We have a disco with the kids and give them Fanta in a champagne flute, it’s lovely.

Nibbles, drinkypoo, generally any pretentious connotations.

I’m finding this thread so cathartic.

Quote of a quote. Same here with the embarrassment. With a majority of family members and then they say ‘they didn’t hear’. Yes. Yes they did hear DM they did.

This time exactly a festive ‘ick’ - but every year I get pissed off at the way we roll from “Spend £££ on Christmas now” to “Spend £££ in the sales now” and “Spend £££ on next year’s holiday now”!

Given the cost of living crisis, this seems particularly tone deaf this year.

Arghhh - that should say “This isn’t exactly a festive ‘ick’ - not This time - I didn’t proof read.

Round Robbins
Darling so and so, had a marvelous year at university.
Or youngest continues to astound us
We have mastered salsa, whilst on holiday in Mauritius. ......
I don't mind general letters but these kind give me the yick

BLUE fairy lights - what is going on in your head ? 😂

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius yes to that. Christmas clothes all in the sale already at Tesco which made me a bit sad.

To be honest, I dislike the self-righteousness of the extreme pro-Santa and anti-Santa people equally,

Unless it's just one aspect of using bogeymen and deception to control children, I strongly doubt that any child was harmed by believing in Father Christmas, or that they will feel betrayed or become liars or all the extreme ideas that some people have.

On the other hand, I don't think that people who don't promote the Father Christmas legend are 'miserable bints', unless they discourage all pretence and imagination; or that children can't experience magic at Christmas unless they believe in a literal Father Christmas. Children can enjoy the magic of Cinderella and Snow White and Harry Potter, after all, without needing to believe that they are real.

The most magical part of childhood is the ability to enjoy pretence without requiring it to be real.

Live and let live. Christmas should not be about enforcing conformity, or doing everything 'in the same way', whether it's about believing in Father Christmas or not believing in him.

I have an ick on phrase "thoughtful gift" especially when combined with something totally mundane.
Often people use it to praise themselves.

Is 'picky bits' what we used to call a finger buffet?

Just wheezed and scared my cat

Bubbles.
Just say champagne or prosecco or whatever the actual drink is!

What did you get hubby as present? Although that's not Christmas specifics, I just hate the word hubby.

Familam instead of family although that’s all year round.
Magazines/shops/ads saying they have Christmas “ All wrapped up” or “ Have a cracking time”. So unoriginal!
Another vote for Elf on the Shelf! They give me the willies!
Christmas starting so flippin’ early - I work in retail & we’re still in flip flops when the decorations etc start being put out. The other year our main tree in store was up in September!

Oh yes "We've got Christmas all wrapped up!" FFS. How can anyone write that as a headline in a magazine and think "heh heh job well done!" No, it's been done every Christmas for the past 100 years, think of something else!

(Oh and no you haven't, because the accompanying article is all horrible Christmas jumpers, jars of peaches in brandy and something like a £500 rocking horse.)

Is 'picky bits' what we used to call a finger buffet?

"Picky bits" is what we used to call scabs.

The main ‘ick’ is definitely Christmas starting way too early. I’d hate to work in retail for that reason alone. I like Christmas for two weeks.

Hate to break it to you there was two new display stands of Easter eggs and crème eggs in our spar on my lunch break yesterday! So same with Easter.

Oh wow, it’s an endless commercial cycle.

The onslaught of wanky perfume ads from mid November. The Daisy one is the worst. I don't mind the invictus one though!

Ridiculous isn’t it? I saw mini eggs in Tesco's a few weeks back.

This was the first time school fair was spelt like this in any mentions, did my nut in!
I can think of nothing less "fayre" like than a school hall that smells of sweaty sport shoes and a thousand chip dinners, lit overhead by halogen lighting and full of parents shuffling in a line to win back the selection box they themselves donated.

Are you ready for the big day ! Urgh.